The First Crisis 1949–1950: This chapter describes how China in 1949–1950 dealt with the decade-long hyperinflation crisis that had crumbled the old regime. The crux was how to keep the speculative economy at bay by consolidating a real economy.You have full access to this open access chapt...
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CNRS President Bernard Meunier resigned on 5 January; 4 days later, the number two, Director Bernard Larrouturou, was fired. This ended a damaging standoff at CNRS over the selection of department directors. Larrouturou, meanwhile, vigorously defended his tenure at a press conference on ...
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NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended the countrywide Lockdown till May 3 in the wake of the prevailing health crisis posed by the COVID pandemic. India's federal health ministry said the death toll due to the COVID-19 rose to 339 and the total number of ...
The expert said the outbreak also exposed problems in China's health sector, including weakness in grassroots health systems, poor emergency responses of some local governments and the absence of private hospitals in a public health crisis.